Monday, March 17, 2008
The Pastor Disaster
News of Obama's church pastors beliefs, spread quickly over the air waves. After watching his clips of his pastor speak to his congregation I was perplexed at the fact that he was a "Pastor." The pastor didn't go to the word in any of the clips that was aired, although I'm sure this was only a very small portion of his 30 years of preaching, his sermon still should have come from Scripture and not opinion based. I don't think that Obama's political career should be held captive for his pastor's belief, although I personally would not stay in a church were I don't see the word preached.
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I've heard many stories about that man even dating back to months ago. finally the media has caught up. Although Obama does not agree on the things his pastor has said or some of his beliefs he still stands by the man because they are friends of course, which is respectable. My best friend does some pretty messed up stuff but hes still my boy.
Obama's pastor was way out of line when he said those comments, he should have known that this was going to come back and haunt Obama. Freedom of speech is still within our constitution though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwQWuQVE6sw
that guy is an absolute nut.
lturner, you are, of course, only seeing the statements taken out of the context of the larger speeches. It's clear that he does preach the word at other times, just not in these clips.
Calling someone a "nut" is, by definition an ad hominem attack and should be avoided on the blog.
What people seem to be ignoring on this story is that conservative pastors said basically the same things about 9/11, blaming America for the attacks. In particular Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson did this, but also Fred Phelps, who protests the funerals of American troops who die in Iraq.
McCain has had on-again, off-again relationships with Falwell and Robertson. He once called them "agents of intolerance" but more recently has embraced Robertson. He also has been endorsed by a preacher name John Hagee who has made some extreme comments as well. McCain repudiated these comments much like Obama did.
I know that the idea seems to be something of a joke, but I seem to remember something that stated a separation of church and state. I don't agree with what the pastor said, in fact, I am pretty sure that if it were made aware to the church sooner what he was saying he would have resigned much earlier then he did.
Church should be separate from state, and vice versa.
If you want to vote for someone for religious views, thats fine. I don't need to go there do I?
(I'm an agnostic.)
Ignore change the last line, I just realized that I made that directed, it should read:
If a person wants to vote for someone based on religious views...
Mr. Q., I know that this was a small glimsp of his teachings but he was saying things with no back up. Some times emotions get the best of every one but it wasn't his emotions, this is his core. There are many pastors that preach like him white and black but what about the gospel? Andrew S., your right it is noble to stick with a friend, up to a point that is.
Religion can either make, or break a politician. In prior elections, religion has influenced my opinions about candidates and their morality. This time around I realize that religion has nothing to do with the morality of a presidential candidate. Morality has to do with the conduct of Obama and McCain in which they choose their words and handle situations like these. Anyone can say that they're men of faith, but politicians have lied in the past.
Obviously, I can't give credit to anonymous comments.
BARACK OBAMA DIDNT MAKE THE COMMENT, HIS PASTOR DID, SO HE SHOULD NOT BE JUDGED FOR THAT COMMENT THAT WAS MADE BY HIS PASTOR. HIS PASTOR SHOULD HAVE BACKED UP WHAT HE SAID BY SCRIPTURE, AND NOT BY OPINION.THIS ISNT ABOUT HIS PASTOR, IT IS ABOUT HIM.
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